A bus ride to remember

When a lad, I used to take Greyhound bus rides with my mom. She often took the bus to visit a friend and I got to go along.

She could drive but chose to take the bus on longer trips.

Later in life, I was on another bus — in Cambodia — and this was a different kind of bus ride.

I was there to visit Angkor Wat, one of the most famous of religious ruins. I flew there from Japan and planned to stay a...